Tuesday, 27 March 2012

It may be too little too late to stop the bill, but at least the message is getting out there. The more people know about this, the better. For over a month the connections to Lords and companies involved in private healthcare was made available through twitter and the blog. Throughout the course of the research, and as it became increasingly clear that the members of the upper chamber were riddled with self-interest, we kept informing mainstream media along with other Twitterers that they should publish the information.

None of them did.

Russia Today have now run this important story and good that it is getting out there, but why not the UK media? The law remains unchanged, Lords remain able to vote on bills regardless of their self-interest.

Monday, 26 March 2012

The investigation into the registered interests of the
House of Lords members has revealed serious flaws in our democracy whereby
Lords who have outside financial interests are allowed to vote on a bill that
may benefit them.

As the Health and Social Care bill went through the upper
chamber, Social Investigations highlighted the various members and their
financial links to companies involved in private healthcare. These Peers across
all parties have a mixture of interest, which include shares in private
healthcare companies; being chairman, consultants, and senior advisers to
investment groups funding the vultures ready to swoop.

At best this is self-interest, at worse this is institutional corruption and is a part of the same problem that just came to light over the donation scandal. We are not in this together, they are out for themselves and the corporations they serve.

One rule for others, one for them:
If you are a councillor at local government level with financial interest or a
partner with financial interest, then they must declare a ‘prejudicial interest’,
then they must leave the room and take no further part in discussions or
voting. In many cases this is left down to the discretion of the elected member
but with the knowledge that this will be challenged somewhere down the line.
Why are the Lords not treated in the same way?

The numbers:
In total there are 141 Peers that have these connections, representing 17% of
the total. The Conservatives who created the bill and in many quarters want to
see the NHS dismantled had over a quarter of their members with these self-interests.
This is intolerable. In addition to this
the Liberal Democrats who have allowed this bill to go through have one in ten
with these interests. This may well be the least, but none of them should have
been allowed to vote. However the self-interest is across the board with one in
six Crossbench peers and one in six Labour peers having these interests. This
means we must watch them if they get back into power in case they try and water
down any repeal.

To view full list of peers with financial interests in private healthcare
companies click here.

The investigations
will continue, with certain Lords and companies being looked at in more detail.
If you are a journalist or member of the public who has any information then
please contact me at: andrewfiskar (at) gmail.com

Sunday, 25 March 2012

If the
Labour party are to make sure they are in a stronger position to criticise the
Conservatives and Liberal Democrats over healthcare privatisation, then they
need to have a word with some of their own Peers before the election.

In the
last piece of research into peers of all parties, Social Investigations can
reveal that amongst the Labour party, 37 out of 238 Lords have financial
interests in companies involved in private healthcare. This represents 15% of
the total, which amounts to 1 in 6, which is the same percentage as the
Crossbench Peers; less than the Conservatives, but more than the Liberal
Democrats.

The party,
which moved to the right under Tony Blair, is in no position to thrown stones.
As with all the other parties, the connections vary. Some have shares in
companies; others are directors, advisors or chairman. Some of the peers work
for a Conservative peer owned company, just like a Liberal Democrat peer has shares
in a Conservative owned party.

Labour has promised to repeal the bill, if that is so, then great, but how many
of their own Peers will be that keen to do so on this list? Although they towed the
party line on this occasion, will some of them be internally negotiating to
water down any changes if Labour gets back into power?

1. Baroness Billingham: Regular contributions to Cumberlege Connections a training
company for training NHS personnel and is a political
networking firm that works "extensively" with the
pharmaceutical industry.

2. Lord Carter: The head of the increasingly influential Competition and
Cooperation Panel, is an adviser to Warburg Pincus International Ltd, a private
equity firm with significant investments in the healthcare industry. Chairman
Patrick Carter, or Lord Carter of Coles to give him his full title, was the
founder of Westminster Health Care, a leading private nursing home company. He
is also the Chair of McKesson Information Solutions Ltd, which delivers IT to
“virtually every NHS organisation”, the chair of Primary Group Ltd, a Bermudan
based private equity company, and a substantial shareholder in, among other
companies, B-Plan Information Systems Ltd, which has also benefited from the increased
need for large scale IT systems that the introduction of an internal market to
the NHS has brought with it (see the interview with Frank Wood, of King’s
foundation trust, where B-Plan has worked, in the last news update). Carter’s
register of interests in the House of Lords also lists him as an adviser to
Warburg Pincus International Ltd, a private equity firm, which has significant
investments in the healthcare industry. It even rescued United Healthcare from
financial ruin in 1987 and helped it to become one of the largest healthcare
companies in the world. He can now help it to become one of the biggest
beneficiaries of the government’s reforms. - http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3934

4. Lord Darzi: Former surgeon drafted into
government as a health minister by Gordon Brown when he was PM. Now an adviser
to medical technology firm GE Healthcare.

Quotes on bill:he would find it 'difficult at this
stage' to vote for blocking the Bill...'I am speaking as a surgeon, not a
politician.'

5. Lord Davies of Abersoch: A non-executive Director of Diageo. Lansley used to hold a
directorship at Profero who had Diageo as one of their clients. Diageo plc
are an alcohol drinks company who have been awarded money to teach midwives in
England and Wales on the dangers of alcohol. Vice Chairman and partner in
Corsair Capital llc, who have amongst others Axis Capital holdings in their
portfolio, providers of healthcare insurance products. Shares in HSBC who are
heavily involved in PFI hospitals.

14. Lord Harris of Haringey: Former senior adviser to business services giant KPMG, who are heavily
involved in implementing changes in the NHS and its commissioning groupsWyeth
Pharmaceuticals 2001. Remunerated by Cumberlege Connections Ltd for occasional
participation in training events. See Baroness Cumberlege. One client Airwave through his own company Toby harris Associates provides services to Ambulance and health.

Lord Hutton of Furness: Ex-health minister is an adviser
to law firm Eversheds. Clients include care homes and private hospitals.

17. Baroness Jay: Occasional participation in seminars for Cumberlege
Connections. Company that is a training company NHS
personnel and a political networking firm that works
"extensively" with the pharmaceutical industry.

18. Lord Kestenbaum: Member of the board of directors of marketing agency Profero. Andrew
Lansley was a director of Profero until the end of 2009. Diageo an alcohol
company was one of their clients which went onto to be awarded a contract to
talk about alcohol to midwives so that they can advise Mothers. Profero have
contributed to the NHS Change4Life
campaign to get more people to exercise.

19. Baroness Kingsmill: Non-executive director of Korn/Ferry International, an executive
recruitment firm. Among the diverse range of healthcare organisations they
have secured and developed top healthcare executives for are in hospital
systems, multi-specialty physician practices, pharmacy benefit management
companies, long-term care/assisted-living companies, home health companies,
healthcare associations, and other service delivery companies. Two other peers
work for them. Deputy Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers,
which claims to have “been at the heart of shaping
­[healthcare] reforms and working with clients to respond to the opportunities
they present”.

24. Baroness Mallalieu: Has shares in Diageo (See Andrew Lansley), and pharmaceutical giant
Reckitt Benckiser. Shares in Oryx International a closed-end investment company
incorporated
in Guernsey, which invests in healthcare.

25. Lord Malloch-Brown: Chairman of FTI Global Affairs an advisory firm, which helps companies
in the healthcare sector amongst others. On his
appointment in 2010 he said: "Lord
Malloch-Brown said, "The global economy has reached a tipping point, with
Western companies under great pressure to shift their footprint towards
emerging markets."

26. Lord Mandelson: Senior Advisor at Lazard Ltd, an international advisory
investment bank, which includes the area of healthcare.

28. Baroness Morgan of Huyton: Ex-director of failed care home firm Southern Cross. Member of the
advisory Committee board for Virgin Group Holdings Ltd.

29. Lord Myners: Non-Executive Director of RIT Capital partners plc, who according to
their annual report
invest extensively in healthcare. Also has shares in company.

30. Lord Noon: Director of Nutrahealth plc is a holding company which is 100% owned
subsidiary of Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd, an Indian based healthcare company
since November 2010. The businesses operated in the UK are
Biocare, Brunel Health and Totally Nourish. Shares in Casualty Plus Ltd -
private walk-in clinic.

31.Lord Prescott: Fee received from Civica plc (25 January 2012) as payment for taking part in a panel discussion at a conference hosted by Civica at the Manchester International Conference Centre, Manchester; travel expenses were also paid for by Civica plc

More than 70 NHS Commissioners use Civica Health & Social Care's industry standard SLAM NHS Commissioning software to help manage service level agreements with providers, including Payment by Results, local tariffs, local agreements, block payments and other variants.

32. Lord Puttnam: Director of Huntsworth communications group. global public relations
and integrated healthcare communications group. Did not stand for the board
this year (2012). Deputy chair of Profero (See Andrew Lansley). Senior
Non-executive director of Promethean World plc a technological hardware
company, which according to its annual reports a
new division was created, which amongst other sectors included
healthcare.

36.Lord Sugar: Amscreen Plc is part of Lord Sugar’s
Amshold Group of companies, which he owns. The company provides T.V screens
into places where there is a captive audience and places targeted marketing
alongside the other content the organisation may use. These screens are placed
in GP surgeries, hospitals and dentists throughout the UK and in Europe.

Amscreen and BMI
Healthcare have a contract together to sponsor live weather
feeds to advise patients on their ‘healthcare choice’. This sponsorship deal
will reach 3 million patients across the Amscreen network. Nigel Moon, Head of
Marketing at BMI Healthcare has said “This advertising and sponsorship package
provides us with a great opportunity to feature BMI Healthcare, our local hospitals
and services to a highly targeted audience at a key time in the patient
journey.” BMI Healthcare joins other leading brands such as Unilever, GSK and
Pfizer who are able to reach captive audiences in GP surgeries across the
healthcare network.

Now Lord Sugar’s
son who runs Amscreen has teamed up with a face recognition company called
Quividi. This technology
will be able to ‘determine the gender, age, date, time and volume of the
viewers.’ This according to Lord Sugar’s son said “brands deserve to know not
just an estimation of how many eyeballs are viewing their adverts, but who they
are, too.” Maybe the public deserves to know who is monitoring them, and what
is happening to this data. Maybe the public deserves to be able to go to the GP
surgery and not be a target for advertisers.

Viglen Ltd –
shares – company provides I.T. services
to the NHS. supplying over 45 central and local government councils, including
a number of NHS and local education authorities, just under 70,000 computers
over the next two years.

38. Lord Warner: Former adviser to Apax Partners, one of the leading global investors
in the healthcare sector. Current director of Sage Advice Ltd. Works as an
adviser to Xansa, a technology firm, and Byotrol, an antimicrobial company,
which both sell services or products to the NHS” and was “paid by DLA Piper,
which advised ministers on the £12 billion IT project for the NHS” projects
that he was responsible for when he was a government minister. Lord Warner
explains his role here.

The
Liberal Democrats have been instrumental in helping the Conservative party
realise their dream of passing through the Health and Social Care bill. A bill
that failed to appear in either party’s manifesto and thus had no mandate to
the voting public. The bill, which has been wholly rejected as acceptable by
the health professionals who work in the NHS, citing competition and
privatisation as being the major area of concern.

One in
Ten Liberal Democrat peers have financial connections to companies involved in
private healthcare. That is to say ten out of the 90 Liberal Democrat peers
have direct financial links. This is considerably less that the One
in Four Conservatives and the One
in Six Crossbench Peers with such connections, with Labour Peers still
to be calculated.

However, that is not to say this number is acceptable. It is not. Why are any peers with connections to companies that could benefit from the bill allowed to vote on it?

The Liberal Democrats as a party are heavily funded by a company called Alpha
Healthcare, which have been donating to the party since 2004. The company has donated more than
half the money the Lib Dems have taken in major donations since the start
of the election campaign. The
amount they have been giving has steadily increased over time, but last year it
accelerated up to £400,000. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make the
connection. Research conducted by Dr
Éoin
Clarke on his Green Benches blog
revealed how this company had changed its company registration number and
business premises after the 2010 lection, which meant their most recent
donations didn’t show in the Electoral Commission’s website.

Is this what we want from our democracy?

In an email exchange with Baroness Barker, which followed my sending her the list of Lords interests, she seemed to be more concerned with the technical issue of whether her colleagues had registered their interests saying: ‘Please supply your evidence that any of the people named below who have taken part in the Health and Social Care Bill have failed to declare their interests as they are required to do.’ She misses the point.

As with the Conservative,
Crossbench and as I have seen so far the Labour members, the connections to the
companies vary across the sphere of influence. Some are connected by
shareholdings; some are chairman, partners, advisors and directors. The
merry-go-round of self-interest and the dubious methods in which power and
influence affect our society must be changed, if the public are to once again
trust our parliamentarians. They are after all meant to be public servants, but
as the evidence accumulates, it becomes clear it is the corporations with which
they appear to serve.

1. Lord
Alliance: Shares in Huntsworth plc - a
company whose CEO is Lord Chadlington - which £15,500 to the party in August last year and has given money every
year since 2008. Denied it at first but Electoral Commission found them out.
The same company that had Baroness Cumberledge as one of their non-executive
directors. Heavily involved in lobbying and PR.

2. Lord
Clement-Jones: Partner in DLA Piper, a global
law firm providing lobbying services to “clients in the health and social care
sectors”. DLA Piper counts Southern Cross amongst
its clients. Lord Clement-Jones nominated Lord Hameed for his peerage, a
nomination supported by Lord Dholakia. Lord Hameed sits on the board of Alpha
hospitals, part of the Alpha Healthcare (C&C Alpha/C&C business
solutions) group. The Alpha group has made significant donations to the Liberal
Democrat party. In 2008, Lord Clement-Jones was the party treasurer. The Times
exposed Lord Clement-Jones as being the man who nominated Lord Hameed, after
the peer had originally said he had 'no idea.' Ownership of Alpha is usually
assigned to Bhanu Dhruv Choudhrie who were accused of brokering an israeli arms deal.

3. Lord Lee: Shares in United Drug plc (Pharmaceuticals) - Provide home-based
pharmacy care for patients covered by the NHS as a joint venture from 2009 with
Medco Health Solutions.

4. Lord
Lester: Has shares in Investor AB
an investment company that invests in healthcare companies amongst other
sectors. One company is Gambro, a global medical technology company, which
sells its products to the NHS. Voted loyally with the bill amendments.

5. Lord
Rennard: Director, British
Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) - Voted loyally on the Health and Social
Care bill - The BHTA's purpose, as a trade association, is to ensure that the
market for healthcare and assistive technologies is competitive, profitable and
well-regulated. They work in partnership with industry, government, and other
stakeholders. Set up a communications company with his wife called Rennard
& McTegart Ltd. through this company provides public affairs advice to the
British Healthcare Trade Association. Rennard & McTegart Ltd provide
management, campaign, communications and fund raising consultancy.

6. Lord
Sharman: Is the chairman of Aviva,
has directorship and Shareholdings in Aviva plc - his being chairman is not
registered in the register of interests - Aviva sells health insurance and will
likely benefit from any increase in privatisation - they promote how you don't
have to have waiting times if you take out insurance with them. Dr Doug Wright,
principal clinical consultant at Aviva Health UK, said "I think we
could start to see waiting lists increase again, especially for some of the
elective procedures that are within the traditional medical insurance
territory," Dr Wright said. Earlier this month, a spokesman for the
Association of British Insurers noted that health insurance could be a
"very useful product" of which many people in the UK could take advantage.

7. Lord steel:
Non-executive Director, General Mediterranean
Holding SA is a Business group with activities in amongst other sectors Trading
& Pharmaceuticals. The http://www.gmhsa.com/images/spacer.gifIndustrial,
Trading & Pharmaceuticals part is split into two companies of interest.
Meditech UK Ltd has software currently installed at ten medical facilities in
the UK including the NHS. MEDITECH is the leading supplier of healthcare
information systems in North America. The other company is Crescent Pharma Ltd which
directly and indirectly supplies a wide range of major distributors and
customers within the UK, including the NHS.

8. Lord
Taverne: Chairman of private health
insurer Axa Sun Life’s monitoring board. Shares in Unilever whose European
venture capital arm Unilever Ventures joined with a company called Vectura to
form a pharma arm to their company. Shares in GlaxoSmithKline, who provide
products to the NHS. Has shares in a company called Informa which provides
authoritative research and analysis and up-to-the-minute business news, comment
and events for all sectors of the healthcare, medical and life sciences
communities. They present their findings to clients who then invest based on
their reports. Has shares in Legal and General, which provides healthcare
insurance.

10. Lord Watson: Chairman, Havas Media UK - MPG Media Contacts is an integrated agency,
100% owned by Havas Media. In April 2011 - MPG Media Contacts won the
integrated media planning and buying account for Circle Health, the healthcare
partnership that runs and builds hospitals.The account is worth just under £1m,
according to MPG Media Contacts, and the scope of the work covers offline and
online channels in the UK. Circle, which became the first private UK firm to
run an NHS hospital last year when it won the tender to run Hinchingbrooke
Hospital, plans to build a network of 30 hospitals across the UK in the coming
years. Paul Frampton, managing director, MPG Media Contacts, said: "We're
proud to be working with Circle, which does an excellent job in the Healthcare
sector. "Our primary aim will be to deliver them an integrated media
strategy that will bring them real value this year."

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Lord Patten, the current
head of the BBC has direct links to a company heavily involved in private
healthcare.

Lord Patten of Barnes is a member of the
European Advisory Board for a private equity investment company called
Bridgepoint.

The company who also have Alan
Milburn the former Secretary of State for Health under Tony Blair, as chair of
the board, have been involved
in 17 healthcare deals over recent years
listed below. Eight of these companies remain as their current investments,
which include four in the UK at a combined investment worth over £1.1 billion.

One company
acquired by Bridgepoint was residential care company CareUK in a £414 million acquisition in July 2010.
CareUK made the headlines in the same year when it was revealed their chairman
Jonathan Nash had donated £21,000 in November 2009 to run Health Secretary
Andrew Lansley’s personal office.

Another deal saw Tunstall,
a telehealth company with contracts in the NHS, acquired by Charterhouse
Development Company for
£555 million; who have another Lord Patten
as their senior advisor. Four
companies were involved in the transaction, including; Goldman Sachs,
Clifford Chance, KPMG, and LEK, three of which have Lords
in senior positions. Lord Griffiths is a director at Goldman Sachs; Lord
Harris is a senior advisor at KPMG, and Lord Wakeham is an adviser to LEK.

Further transactions for Bridgepoint and a private healthcare company involved
Alliance Medical, who sold the MRI scan company for
£600 million to Dubai International LLC in 2007. The sale was a weighty
profit, following it’s original purchase for £90 million purchase made while Alan Milburn was
working at Bridgepoint.

Further
investments by Bridgepoint into the healthcare sector look likely according to their
website, which states: ‘We believe that there will be excellent growth prospects and
consolidation opportunities for those private sector players that can offer
flexible, efficient and innovative business models in this evolving environment.’

Lord Patten was appointed to the
Lords in 2005, and before being accepted as the head of the BBC was urged
by Labour in March last year, to cut back on his business activities. This however
didn’t happen, as he remains a stakeholder of energy giant EDF, a member of the
advisory board of BP, advisor to telecom business Hutchison Europe, as well as
his advisory role in Bridgepoint. Part of the concern of his appointment to the
BBC was that as a member of the Conservative party his appointment would be a
political placement at the top of the organisation.

Lord Patten of Barnes didn’t vote
on the Health and Social Care bill, but that he was allowed to if he so wanted
to, highlights the democratic hole in the Lords rules, which fails to prevent
voting despite clear conflicts of interest.

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

The number of
Crossbench peers with financial interests in companies involved in private
healthcare is 31, which represents 16% of the total. The majority of those who voted, voted with the coalition. This compares to the 28%
of Conservative peers with such links, and the 11% of Liberal Democrat peers. Make
of it what you will.

The fact that any of these Lords were able to vote with the conflicts of interest represents a great concern for democracy. Had these peers been prevented from voting as would have been the case at local level, then the outcome for the Health and Social Care bill would have been different.An e-petition has been set up which is here - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31991 - if you can please sign it to stop Lords voting on their own interests, this would go some way to prevent their behaviour.For more on Crossbenchers please click here:

1. Lord
Adebowale:– No party - non-executive director and shares in St Vincent's
healthcare consulting company that offers consultancy to the healthcare market.
Their partners include: BT Health, IOCOM and AXSys. Voted with Labour.

2. Lord Boyce: No party - non-executive director of global engineering and design
company WS Atkins - who are involved in multiple PFI
projects and NHS building projectsincluding, Tayside
Murray Royal Hospital, Ayrshire & Arran Community Health Trust, Cummock
Community hospital, and Doncaster & South Humber healthcare.

Chairman of D Group advisory
board. D Group is a business development and networking group, which according
to its website
is 'dedicated to generating revenues and promoting the objectives of its
members.' They have over 70 members consisting of UK and International leading
business, though they are not listed. However in their testimonial page one
company is mentioned BT group plc, which is one of the largest suppliers
of communications to the NHS. BT was involved in the failed NHS computer system
overhaul. The testimonial of BT group PLC says 'The D Group provides effective
and discreet access to influential thinkers and policy makers on important
topics.' Voted on 4.9% of his time in the Lords, but managed to vote on key areas of the Health and Social care bill with coalition.

3. Lord Chorley:
Hereditary - Shares in Pharmaceutical giant Astrazeneca, private health
insurance providers Prudential and Legal and General and banking group Standard
Chartered, which invests in healthcare companies and offers health insurance.
Shares in Reckitt Benckiser, in Unilever, and IBM, the latter
supply software to the NHS.Voted with coalition.

5. Lord Elystan: – Formerly labour - Has bonds held in HSBC-controlled companies -
According to a Times report in 2008, HSBC made almost £100 million from managing NHS
hospitals where where contractors charge taxpayers inflated
bills for simple tasks, such as £210 to fit an electrical socket. HSBC has a
controlling stake of several hospitals, including outright
ownership of three NHS hospitals, located in Barnet, Central Middlesex, and
West Middlesex. HSBC used a legal loophole to handle the profits from PFI
schemes to a tax haven in
Guernsey. HSBC offer health insurance.
Lord Elystan also hold shares in Santander which offers health insurance and
funds heavily in healthcare projects and companies. Voted with coalition.

6. Earl of Errol: - Hereditary - Chair on the Advisory board of software
intelligence company Flexeye Ltd. The company develop security applications and
platforms, which supplies the NHS. The Company's healthcare
website says: 'Flexeye's Health Information Tool (HIP) is a communication tool
designed especially for the healthcare system.' Paid by Nihilent Technologies
PVT Ltd in unspecified capacity, an IT, consulting and outsourcing company.
Worked on multiple healthcare
projects in multiple countries. Voted with coalition.

7. Baroness Grey-Thompson: Life peer - 'Advisory' work for official Olympic sponsors and
pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The role is contractual to give internal
talks to staff and PR regarding their activation programme. The programme
involves, a partnership with NHS London to inspire people with a
variety of long-term conditions to to understand the benefits of an active
lifestyle. Has given two speaking engagements paid for by Proctor and Gamble,
paid on an ad hoc basis and not contractual. Voted in opposition with Labour.

8. Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank: Life peer - Member of the advisory board of Cannacord Genuity a global
capital markets division of Cannacord financial Inc. Their website states:
'Cannacord Genuity focusses on public and private healthcare companies, at all
stages of development.' Voted on only two amendments.

9. Lord Hameed: No party - Chair of private secure mental health hospital group Alpha
Hospitals, which is investing in a new acute private hospital in central
London. Alpha hospitals. part of the Alpha Healthcare (C&C
Alpha/C&C business solutions) group. The Alpha group has made significant
donations to the Liberal Democrat party. In 2008, Lord Clement-Jones was the
party treasurer. Lord Clement-Jones nominated Lord Hameed to become a peer. Voted in three amendments with Labour.

10. Lord Hannay: Former
ambassadorAdvisor to Frontier Strategy
Group, who provide economic consulting based on emerging markets. They list
multiple pharmaceutical and healthcare
companies as their clients. Has
shares in Lionheart Investment Fund who offer individual or group healthcare
coverage. Voted with Coalition.

11. Lord Hastings: No party - Global head of Citizenship and Diversity for global
tax, Audit, and advisory firm KPMG. The firm is heavily involved in the new NHS
structural changes, including GP commissioning
groups. KPMG's head of Global Health and advisor to Cameron
famously said the NHS would be shown 'no mercy'. Didn't vote.

12. Baroness Hayman: Former Labour party - Has shares in Standard Chartered plc, which offers healthcare through Aviva for its
customers, and general health insurance. Voted with Labour.

13. Baroness Hogg of Kettlethorpe: Former Conservative party - Chair of Frontier Economics, a consultancy
that advises private sector clients on the impact of healthcare reforms and how
"to shape regulatory environments". Didn't vote nor speak.

14. Lord Jones of Birmingham:Was Labour party minister of
State for Trade an Investment - Chairman of software solutions company
Neutrinos Concepts Ltd, which has run a couple of trials in NHS
trust hospitals. He also has shares in the company. Senior
advisor for HSBC plc and Chairman on the International Business Advisory board
for the same bank. (See Crossbench Lord Elystan for more on HSBC). A senior advisor
executive recruitment agency Harvey Nash Group plc. The Harvey NAsh 'Healthcare
Practice' part of the site states: We support leading healthcare organisations
in securing the right Executive...' Is an unpaid associate of Bupa. Voted with coalition.

15. Lord Kerrof Kinlochard: Independent - Member of the Investment advisory board of investment
fund for Edinburgh Partners. A report by
the group reveals healthcare as their main sector of interest representing
22.7% of their allocation. Largely voted with the coalition.

16. Lord Kilclooney: Ulster Unionist - Shares in Vodaphone - Vodaphone produced a
report by themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in
healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other
mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have
appointed Vodaphone UK as its communications partner. Voted largely with the coalition.

17. Lord Levene: Former Lord Mayor - Holds shares in pharmaceutical giant
GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, which is heavily involved in the healthcare
sector. Voted on two amendments, both with the coalition.

18. Baroness Manningham-Buller: Has given speaking engagements for KPMG, Artemis, Merck, and Standard Chartered Bank all involved in private healthcare.

19. Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge: Businessman - Chairman of Nomura International plc. Nomura code,
which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Europe Holdings plc, who Lord
Marshall is also a chairman is a leading European investment bank specialising
in healthcare.

21. Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein – Crossbench – shares in Astrazeneca
(Pharma), Vodafione plc. Vodafone produced a reportby themselves, which showed how they can help drive efficiency in
healthcare costs promoting the use of SMS texts which go via them and other
mobile phone companies. South-Central ambulance service NHS trust have appointedVodafone UK
as its communications partner. Shares in Standard life (private health insurance).

22. Duke of Norfolk: Hereditary - Shares in Cardionetics who sell ECG monitors. The
heart monitor hardware is supplied to the NHS. Shares in Helperby
Therapeutics plc, which is developing a new antibiotic
processes. Didn't vote.

23. Lord O'Donnell: Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive of Toronto Dominion Bank, which has a healthcare area which includes health insurancecover. In addition the bank has a healthcare division covering liability. The Peer began in the Lords from 10th January 2012.

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He joined
Frontier Economic (Europe) as a Senior Advisor at the end of
last year to advise on ‘all aspects of Frontier’s work.’’

Frontier's involvement
in healthcare includes regular advice to public and private sector institutions
on ‘healthcare reform'. Frontier’s Health practice advises
public sector and private clients on issues relating to the reform,
restructuring and operation of healthcare markets.

27. Lord Powell of Bayswater: Former
Conservative under Margaret Thatcher -Chairman
of the advisory board of Bowmark Capital who invest in healthcare
amongst other sectors. Member of the International Advisory board for health
insurance providers ACE insurance. When voted, did so with the coalition.

28. Lord Quirk: Conservative supporter - Has
shares in pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Astrazeneca and
Walgreen. For more on Walgreens. Shares in Standard
chartered who offer health insurance. Voted in a mixture of for and against the coalition.

29. Lord Renwick of Clifton: Ambassador
under Thatcher, and Major -Vice Chairman of global
Investment giants JP Morgan. his chairmanships is of both JP Morgan Cazenove
and JP Morgan Europe investment banking. JP Morgan are major players in healthcare. According to their website they serve: 1,100 hospitals,
10 of the top 10 health insurers, thousands of physicians groups, top five
pharmacy benefit managers, six of the top eight pharmacy retailers. Also has
shares in JP Morgan. Didn't vote. Hasn't done since 2006.

30. Lord St John: Hereditary - Non-executive
Director of PharmaSys Ltd, a web-based pharmacy management system.
Non-Executive Director of Albion Ventures VCT - which has multiple healthcare
companies on its portfolio. Consultant for 2e2 Group plc,
an IT solution provider, which has multiple
contracts across the healthcare spectrum, including the NHS. Largely voted with the coalition.

31. Lord Skidelsky: Originally Labour, became a
Conservative - Shares in fund managers Janus Capital Group, who invest in the
healthcare sector amongst other areas. Wrote in the Spectator in 2000, on
an article titled: 'Let's go private.'
In there he promotes the idea of encouraging users to get a tax-incentive to go
private. Voted on two amendments one on adult care in favour of Labour.

32.Lord
StevensonCrossbench
– Former chair of HBOS from 2001-2009, during which it collapsed and seen
as having "Responsibility [for the near-collapse of the bank] lies particularly
with Lord Stevenson" the Banking Commission.

Lord Stevenson
has a 4% shareholding in Lexington Communications
– who are involved in healthcare.

Saxton Bampfylde
headhunter firm, which has recruited
people into key positions
throughout the NHS and state on their website "It’s our job to
seek out the people who lead, shape and direct organisations."

Has shares in
Aircraft Medical invent, make and sell specialised medical equipment.
In 2008 they won
"one of the largest Research & Development funding packages from the
UK Departments of Health through the Health Technology Devices (HTD)
programme."

33. Lord Sutherland: British academic - Non-executive
chairman of Scottish Care - now represents the largest group of Health and
Social Care independent providers across Scotland, delivering residential care,
day care, care at home, and housing support. Largely voted with the coalition.